Gasoline - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: gasolineGasoline
A highly volatile mixture of fluid hydrocarbons obtained mostly from petroleum as also by the distillation of bituminous coal It is used as a fuel for most automobiles and for many other vehicles with internal combustion engines The gasoline of commerce is typically blended with additives to improve its performance in internal combustion engines Gasoline was also used in the early 1900s in making air gas and in giving illuminating power to water gas See Carburetor...
Internal combustion
Designating or pertaining to any engine called an Internal combustion engine in which the heat or pressure energy necessary to produce motion is developed in the engine cylinder as by the explosion of a gas and not in a separate chamber as in a steam engine boiler The gas used may be a fixed gas or one derived from alcohol ether gasoline petrol naphtha oil petroleum etc There are three main classes 1 gas engines proper using fixed gases as coal blast furnace or producer gas 2 engines using the vapor of a volatile fluid as the typical gasoline petrol engine 3 oil engines using either an atomized spray or the vapor produced by heat of a comparatively heavy oil as petroleum or kerosene In all of these the gas is mixed with a definite amount of air the charge is composed in the cylinder and is then exploded either by a flame of gas flame ignition now little used by a hot tube tube ignition or the like by an electric spark electric ignition the usual method is gasoline engines or by the hea...
Petroleum product
Petroleum product, means any commodity made from petroleum or natural gas and shall include refined crude oil, processed crude petroleum, residuum from crude petroleum, cracking stock, uncracked fuel oil, fuel oil, treated crude oil residuum, casing head gasoline, natural gas gasoline, naphtha, distillate gasoline, kerosene, waste oil, blended gasoline, lubricating oil, blends or mixture of oil with one or more liquid products or by-products derived from oil condensate, gas o petroleum hydrocarbons, whether herein enumer-ated or not. [Petroleum and Natural Gas Rules, 1959, s. 3(n)]...
Service station
a business where automobiles may be serviced and repaired usually also having a gasoline vending apparatus in which case it is also called a gas station or gasoline station Facilities for repair of automobiles but without a gasoline dispensing function are commonly called repair shops...
variable expenses
variable expenses Costs or payments that may vary from month to month, for example, gasoline or food. Source: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development ...
Benzine
A liquid consisting mainly of the lighter and more volatile hydrocarbons of petroleum or kerosene oil used as a solvent and for cleansing soiled fabrics called also petroleum spirit petroleum benzine Varieties or similar products are gasoline naphtha rhigolene ligroin etc...
chainsaw
a portable power saw having teeth that are linked to form an endless chain rotated about two pivot points by a power mechanism such as an electric motor or a gasoline engine...
ethanol
The organic compound C2H5OH the common alcohol which is the intoxicating agent in beer wine and other fermented and distilled liquors called also ethyl alcohol It is used pure or denatured as a solvent or in medicines and colognes and cleaning solutions or mixed in gasoline as a fuel for automobiles and as a rocket fuel as in the V 2 rocket...
Gasolene
See Gasoline...
Gasoline engine
A kind of internal combustion engine in British countries called usually petrol engine...
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